Forever Alone: Transformers Prime

Chapter XXVIII

"Bulkhead, you really mustn't allow yourself to decline." Ratchet cried.

"Yeah Bulk, you gotta pull yourself out of this funk." Miko cried, waking Julie who was asleep on the couch. Julie groaned audibly as she found them talking about Bulkhead's condition.

"What's the use?" Bulkhead cried.

"You need to regain your strength. The time will come when..." Ratchet started to explain.

"When all of you guys need an assist? Isn't that what the new guy's for?" Bulkhead complained.

"Hey Bulkhead, I've been thinking with your injury and all, you might want to take advantage of the armor I snagged from Starscream. Instant muscle suit." Smokescreen exclaimed.

"You think I need a crutch." Bulkhead shoved the armor out of Smokescreens servos, but before it could damage anything, Julie quickly dove off the platform with her injured wing and caught the armor before it hit the monitors. She dropped the apex armor, just before she fell onto the monitors which started beeping rapidly from her fall.

"Bulkhead, I needed that." Ratchet cried.

"Julie, are you okay?" Miko asked, as Julie now had a bigger whole torn into her wing.

"No, Miko. I am not okay, now I am not much better than Bulkhead I am afraid." Julie cried as she stretched out her torn wing.

"Out of my way, Rookie." Bulkhead shoved Smokescreen before picking up the lob ball to use it as a weight.

"He can walk." Smokescreen cried. "Looks like he is fit for duty to me."

"Ah, you don't even know talking about." Ratchet mumbled as Julie sat there on the monitors.

"You gotta be kidding me, Raf. You of all people grounded." Jack cried on the phone.

"Just when we get one back, we lose another." Miko mumbled.

Julie leaped off the monitors and onto the floor below her, ungracefully as she crashed and caught everyone's attention in the process. "Julie, you're injured." Jack cried.

"Yeah? I hadn't noticed." Julie replied in disgust. "I thought I was A okay. Thanks for noticing." Julie got up onto her feet and flapped her good wing to get the dust off her, before she walked away down the hall. Optimus and the other bots watched, as she left the hall. Julie wandered down the hallway, before she found herself in a small bathroom for the humans, where she poured some water onto her injured wing. Thin layers of skin formed onto her injured wing, but not enough to allow her the ability to fly. As she exited the bathroom she headed back to the mainroom, hearing Agent Fowler's voice. "And I have a pretty good hunch who. The stolen satellite was Project Damocles."

"Invented by Silas." Optimus spoke.

"I am guessing the former Colonel Bishop wanted it back." Agent Fowler explained.

"Isn't Silas smashed by the clone Optimus?" Bumblebee asked.

"Yeah, I thought Silas was past." Arcee answered.

"So did I." Agent Fowler spoke up.

"Agent Fowler, even if he were alive, are you suggesting that Silas has aligned MECH with the decepticons? I highly doubt that Megatron would entertain such an idea." Ratchet spoke.

"Why not? The human bot alliance works for us." Jack asked.

"Most of the time." Arcee spoke up.

"I suggest otherwise, you guys." Julie cried out from the floor. Her wings tucked behind her. "Unlike any of you, I was actually at the hand of Silas." Everyone turned around seeing Julie standing below them.